Maldives Named Among National Geography’s Best Trips To Take In 2020 Destinations
2020 is just a month away and travelers around the world are already packing their bags, searching the web for new destinations and thrillers. As the travelers get ready National Geographic has announced their annual top 25 most exciting destinations for 2020. Handpicked by their editors and explores, these destinations all over the world delivers and features different holiday experiences, cultural attractions and natural wonders around the world. These 25 destinations include already famous and uprising tourist attractions and sustainable sites to see in 2020.
Maldives is named among the 25 destinations as one of the most unique and naturally beautiful destinations in the world. The concern and effort put forward to ensure a sustainable holiday by the resorts in the Maldives is also a highlighted reason to spend holidays in the Maldives. With many of the resorts in the Maldives including the famous Soneva Fushi which recycles 90 percent of their waste and Kudadoo Maldives, which runs entirely on Solar Energy are among the sustainable holiday options.
Senior Editor of Nat Geo Travel France, Marie-Amélie Carpio stated the following with the listing of the Indian Ocean island nation: “The first nation to champion the need to address climate change in the United Nations General Assembly, in 1987, the Maldives is an environmental protection trailblazer. For the idyllic, 1,200-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, forward-thinking sustainability initiatives—such as the effort to be carbon neutral by 2020—are a matter of survival. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, much of the Maldives—which is the lowest-lying country on the planet (average elevation: five feet) and whose territory is about 99 percent water—could disappear in decades due to rising sea levels caused by global warming. The 540-square-mile UNESCO Baa Atoll Biosphere Reserve helps protect the Maldives’ fragile coral reefs, which support a high diversity of coral, fish, and bird species, as well as sea turtles, whale sharks, and other marine life.”
With February to March being indicated as the ideal season to travel to the Indian ocean archipelago according to Nat Geo, Maldives is set to start 2020 with the already accelerating number of tourist arrivals. 2019 so far has been the year with most tourist arrivals in the history of the country’s tourism history with 1.5 million tourist arrivals to be reached by the end of this month.
